This 2 day course is suitable for complete beginners or those wishing to brush up on their enamelling skills and/or add new skills to their repertoire. No experience of enamelling or jewellery making is required.

Day 1 will be spent learning the basics of using vitreous enamel to enhance jewellery with wonderful colour. We will cover dry applications, (sifting and scraffito) using mainly copper for samples, and then move onto using silver as a base. The course covers preparation of metals, grinding and cleaning enamels for wet-layering, firing, stoning and finishing. We will also discuss designing for enamelling and solving common problems.

Day 2 will cover cloisonne, foils, blending, overlay and
finishing techniques. Students can bring their own pieces for
enamelling as long as the depth of texture is light, ie. between 0.3 -
0.4mm depth with a retaining rim of the same depth around the edge of
the piece.

About Tamizan Savill - Tamizan is an active member of the Association for Contemporary Jewellery. She's also a member of the Guild of Enamellers winning both Enameller Elect and the Fred Barnes Memorial Award at Guild Conference in 2007, and was selected for membership of the British Society of Enamellers in 2009. Currently Tamizan is a visiting specialist tutor in enamelling at the School of Jewellery, Birmingham (BIAD). In 2013 she exhibited at the prestigious Goldsmiths' Fair.